Classroom Applications

A child will benefit most from this

research because of their young and
developing minds that have the ability to
understand and process new languages,
musical skills and their functions in
everyday situations
When children begin learning music skills
prior to the age of seven, they develop
bigger vocabularies, a better sense of
grammar and a higher verbal IQ
These advantages benefit both the
development of their mother tongue and
the learning of foreign languages

Therapeutic Applications

Therapists are able to utilize music to

enhance brain function and thus, both
patients and therapists have noticed
improvement in both aptitude and quality
of life when implementing newer
procedures
Musical neuroscience has been found to
improve memory loss such as in dementia
patients whose memory is often spotty
about certain events
Several therapists are altering brain
function with treatments aimed to make
music processes compensate for damaged
language processes

Communication Systems: The

Music-Language Similarity

Music and language, though usually

regarded as two separate areas, are
undoubtedly connected in structure,
learning acquisition, sound production,
etc.
These two evolved together and were byproducts of one another, going hand-inhand toward developing communication.
Younger members of society should be
able to unlock and gain the skills
characteristic of each and utilize them to
improve IQ, aptitude and training.
Each also has its own applicable
therapeutic uses.

By: David Stephens

davidcstephens3@gmail.com

Music and Language

Vocal or instrumental sounds (or both)

combined in such a way as to produce
beauty of form, harmony, and expression
of emotion

Structural Similarities

Characterized as the method of human

communication, either spoken or written,
consisting of the use of words in a
structured and conventional way

One brain system, based in the temporal

lobes, helps humans memorize
information in both language and music
for example, words and meanings in
language and familiar melodies in music.
The other system, based in the frontal
lobes, helps us unconsciously learn and
use the rules that underlie both language
and music, such as the rules of syntax in
sentences, and the rules of harmony in
music
Unlike any other cognitive capacities or
art/expression forms, both language and
music involve a structure of produced
sounds: speech sounds in language, tones
or pitch in music as well as paralleled
construction formats

Evolutionary Similarities

Evolutionary evidence indicates that

speech as a form of communication has
evolved from our original development
and use of music

Explains why our music and language

neural networks have significant overlap,
and why children who learn music become
better at learning the grammar, vocabulary
and pronunciation of any language

However, traditionally, music has been

considered an evolutionary by-product of
language, since there is no written record
of music development before language